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Drinks vs Alcoholic - What's the difference?

drinks | alcoholic |

As nouns the difference between drinks and alcoholic

is that drinks is while alcoholic is alcoholic.

As an adjective alcoholic is

alcoholic.

drinks

English

Noun

(head)
  • (cricket, plurale tantum) A short break in play to allow the players to have a drink, and for quick repairs to be made to equipment or the pitch.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (drink)
  • ----

    alcoholic

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person addicted to alcohol.
  • * - Alcoholic
  • Don't you know you've got your daddy's eyes
    Daddy was an alcoholic
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-28, author=(Joris Luyendijk)
  • , volume=189, issue=3, page=21, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Our banks are out of control , passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.}}
  • One who abuses alcohol.
  • Synonyms

    * dipsomaniac, drunkard

    Antonyms

    * teetotaler, on the wagon

    See also

    *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to alcohol.
  • Having more than a trace amount of alcohol in its contents.
  • He ordered an alcoholic beverage.
    The oysters were sour, and excessively alcoholic .
  • Of, pertaining to, or affected by alcoholism
  • Antonyms

    * nonalcoholic

    Derived terms

    * Alcoholics Anonymous ----